Residential Stair Lift

This is one of those applications that can make such a difference to the life of someone who for whatever reason cannot manage to climb the stairs any longer.

As far as cost goes although it is not exactly a cheap installation if you were to compare it to the cost of either adding another room for the disabled person on the ground floor, moving to some sort of care center or even buying a ground floor apartment or a one story dwelling it definitely comes out far less expensive.

The bonus is that the disabled person can carry on in their own home, still live in their own comfortable environment instead of having to face a huge upheaval of moving home.

The residential stair lift can either be one that the potential user can simply sit down on a chair and be moved up or down the stairs or if they are confined to a wheelchair the lift could feature a platform on which the wheelchair is fastened and carried up or down the stairs in virtually the same way.

The sit on stair lift needs to be fixed only to the actual stair treads and not every one just a number of them, not the wall and is quite easily installed in the home with the very minimum of disruption to the household.

The wheelchair lift is a bit more complicated in that the rails need to be on both sides of the stairs. Even though the platform folds up when not in use having rails at either side is bound to mean that it takes up a little more stair space than a single rail.

The use of a residential stair lift means that if you are caring for an incapacitated person, parent or other, you no longer have to worry about the safety of that person when negotiating the stairs. It is a well documented fact that most accidents in the home involve the stairs and this is more evident when it comes to someone who is disabled or handicapped in some way. The lift would make moving to another level in the house so much easier and safer,

The lift could also be used to move anything heavy up or down the stairs, laundry for instance, in fact anything that would cause a problem if it had to be handled manually.

If the lift is installed for use of someone who is elderly and is simply getting a little unsteady on their feet and maybe gets a bit tired and short of breath when having to climb stairs it is such a gift. Energy can be saved for doing something else that the lift user enjoys doing.